The temperature on January 13, 2001 was between -3.2 °C and 3.1 °C and averaged -1.1 °C. There was 7.0 hours of sunshine (86%). The almost cloudless was. The average windspeed was 3 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the east-northeast. Source: KNMI
January 23 » Five people attempt to set themselves on fire in Beijing's Tiananmen Square, an act that many people later claim is staged by the Communist Party of China to frame Falun Gong and thus escalate their persecution.
July 2 » The AbioCor self-contained artificial heart is first implanted.
September 9 » Ahmad Shah Massoud, leader of the Northern Alliance, is assassinated in Afghanistan by two al-Qaeda assassins who claimed to be Arab journalists wanting an interview.
October 15 » NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles of Jupiter's moon Io.
November 27 » A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
December 19 » Argentine economic crisis: December riots: Riots erupt in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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